τὰ πλεῖστα φωρῶν αἰσχρὰ φωράσεις βροτῶνἄγαν ἔοικεν ἡμῖν ἐπεμβαίνειν καὶ κολούειν. οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ τὸ δύσκολον τοῦτο τῆς κρίσεως καὶ φιλαίτιον εὐκολωτέρους ποιεῖ ταῖς ὀργαῖς ἐκστατικὸν γάρ ἐστι τὸ ἄφνω καὶ ἀπροσδόκητον δεῖ δ᾽, ὥς που καὶ Παναίτιος ἔφη, χρῆσθαι τῷ Ἀναξαγόρᾳ, καὶ καθάπερ ἐκεῖνος ἐπὶ τῇ τελευτῇ τοῦ παιδὸς εἶπεν ‘ᾔδειν ὅτι ’
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φησιν, ὡς φύσει εὐμετάβολον ζῷον,
καὶ τοὺς τεθραμμένους ἐν τῇ πόλει: καλῶς
δεδιέναι, μὴ ἄνθρωποι καὶ σπέρματα
ἀνθρώπων ὄντες ἐκφήνωσί που τῆς φύσεως
τὴν ἀσθένειαν. ὁ δὲ Σοφοκλῆς 1 λέγων ὅτι
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1891. 3.
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